busy girl

I'm always a bit busy, it seems, but this week has been a compartmentalized kind of busy!

On last Friday afternoon, I slept the entire afternoon away.  E had the afternoon off, and I was just exhausted, so I laid down for a short nap.  I didn't mean for it to turn into a 4 hour nap!  But it was good, we ended up babysitting Leah and (for the first time) baby Leonard.  They are such fun.  Funny thing, my bookshelves that store my decorative things and china in the dining room only have stuff on the top 2 shelves now, that's how tall he is!  We kept moving stuff up as he noticed he could reach it :D

On Saturday, I finished a knitting project, we went out for lunch, stopped at Jo-Ann's to get me some yarn, and then had a meet up with an old friend from college.  That was really nice.  On Sunday, we had dinner with my family, everybody but Matthew was there, and we played with the kids and played San Juan with Sarah, and planned Thanksgiving , and had delicious baked potatoes.

On Monday afternoon, I worked on meal planning.  We hadn't shopped for 2 weeks, and so a lot of staples were low, and we were out of real meal ideas.  Plus there was a HUGE pile of coupons from the papers to go through.  I like to go hrough the ads and coupons and try to come up with meal ideas based on what I can get a good deal on.  And it paid off, I had $7.35 of coupons off this time!

On Tuesday afternoon, I sorted mail and did laundry.  Both projects had been waiting for too long, and it took 4 loads of laundry to finish it all up.  It is nice to have everything I want to wear actually clean. :)

On Wednesday afternoon, I recorded books and worked on more knitting.   The knit-in was again this week because we ended up with weird weeks in November.  I was hoping to start on some new projects, but the yarn didn't get here until 4:15, too late to swatch and finalize the plans.  But I did figure out the basic pattern on one with existing yarn, so I got closer to being ready for that new yarn!  I had a giant pile of books to put into Vox, and I finished one I had in process so I could take it back.  I could see from the library's online display that I had a lot waiting for me (sometimes, my requests come a lot quicker than scheduled), so I wanted to have as many to bring back as possible!

And that's been the fun of late. :)  I'm still reading and knitting and watching TV and working and cooking every day, as normal, but these were the other outstanding things.  :)